Word: dive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prone position bed will also reduce blackouts. When an airplane pulls out of a dive or makes a sharp turn, the pilot's weight increases because of centrifugal force: if he is sitting the blood pulls into the lower part of his body, leaving his brain without proper blood supply...
...help Powell out in every way possible. Powell joins the foreign legion, battles the native revolutionaries (the same seamy Oriental, crowd who were cut down in "Wake Island", "Bataan", "Air Force" and infinitum) gets captured, escapes, locates the evil Nazi (left over from "A Yank in the R.A.F." "Crash Dive", and "Action in the North Atlantic") and finally lands the dame. The whole affair rises to a glorious climax when Powell returns in triumph to his Nebraska hay farm...
...Drohan, in his last appearance in Harvard athletics, took a handy first place in the dive. Amassing 91 points in his New York showing, Drohan was followed by teammate Gordon Weir who was making his first start...
...Norris will swim his specialty, the quarter-mile, during the day's festivities. He looks certain to win. In the dive, Gordon Weir will back Tom Drohan, who will be making his last appearance for Harvard. For the 400-yard freestyle relay, a quartet will be placed together out of Shop Brown, Mort Hull, Bill MacVicar, Bob Burke, Bob Lang, and Art Sicular...
...Dive--Won by Drohan (H); second, Gates (B); third, Briggs...